Business Stories from August 5, 2019 (Change date)
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Northwestern Mutual-Chicago names Perryman director of strategic operationsAug 05, 2019 9:41 am - Northwestern Mutual-Chicago has named Nikki Perryman as director of strategic operations for the Chicago-based financial planning firm. Perryman will guide the firm's mo...
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Wall Street's shady swap trades spark pushback from regulatorsAug 06, 2019 9:31 am - Wall Street's push to clean up a $10 trillion corner of the derivatives market is getting poor reviews from an important audience: global financial regulators. Behind cl...
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Potawatomi wants to operate Waukegan casinoAug 12, 2019 9:33 am - The Potawatomi Hotel & Casino has submitted an application to develop a Waukegan casino, the company announced Monday. A sweeping gambling expansion the Democratic-contr...
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Forbes ranks Empire Today as a "Best Midsize Employer"Dec 31, 1969 6:00 pm - NORTHLAKE - Empire Today ranked No. 279 nationwide and No. 22 in Illinois on Forbes' 2019 list of America's Best Midsize Employers. In 2018, Forbes recognized Empire as ...
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Luxury movie theater chain IPic files Chapter 11 bankruptcyAug 06, 2019 9:31 am - Luxury movie and dining chain iPic Entertainment Inc. filed for bankruptcy in Delaware and may sell itself less than two years after its initial public offering. The Boc...
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IDEX Corp. joins S&P 500Aug 07, 2019 8:26 am - LAKE FOREST - S&P Dow Jones Indices has announced that IDEX Corp. is now a part of the S&P 500 index. IDEX will also be added to the S & P 500 GICS Industrial Machinery ...
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U.S. service firms join factories with slowest growth since 2016Aug 07, 2019 8:37 am - A gauge of service industries declined in July to an almost three-year low as orders continued to cool, indicating a sluggish start to the third quarter for the biggest ...
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China lets currency plunge below 7, a decade low, after Trump adds new tariffsAug 06, 2019 5:58 am - BEIJING - China appeared to mount a counteroffensive Monday to new U.S. tariffs by allowing its tightly controlled currency to slide to an 11-year low, a move that could...
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Construction begins on townhouses at former Rolling Meadows Dominick's siteAug 07, 2019 2:11 pm - Monday marked a new chapter for the former Dominick's site in the Rolling Meadows' downtown, with construction equipment on site and city officials putting shovels in th...
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Feder: Nine personalities added to Radio Hall of FameAug 08, 2019 10:52 am - Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the psychosexual therapist who hosted the groundbreaking radio show "Sexually Speaking" in the 1980s, and Ryan Seacrest, the Los Angeles-based natio...